FM 10-27
APPENDIX B
GENERAL SUPPLY CLASSES
Class I
- Subsistence and gratuitous health and
welfare items.
Class II
- Clothing, individual equipment, tentage, tool
sets and tool kits, hand tools, and administrative and
housekeeping supplies and equipment. Includes items
of equipment, other than principal items, prescribed in
authorization and allowance tables. Subclasses are A, B,
C, D, E, F, G, H, K, L, M, O, P, Q, T, U, W, Y, and Z.
Class III
- Petroleum, oils, and lubricants: petroleum
fuels, lubricants, hydraulic and insulating oils, preser-
vatives, liquid and compressed gases, chemical prod-
ucts, coolants, deicing and antifreeze compounds, to-
gether with components and additives of such products,
and coal. Subclasses are 2, 3, 5, and 6.
Class IV
- Construction: Construction materials to
include installed equipment and all fortification and
barrier materials. No subclasses assigned.
Class VI
- Personal demand items (nonmilitary sales
items). No subclasses assigned.
Class VII
- Major end items: A final combination of end
products which is ready for its intended use and principal
items (for example, launchers, tanks, mobile machine
shops, and vehicles). Subclasses are A, B, D, G, K, L, M
N, O, P, Q, U, W, Y, and Z.
Class IX
- Repair parts: Subclasses are A, B, C, G, H,
K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, U, and W.
Class X -
Materiel to support nonmilitary programs (for
example, agriculture and economic development) not
included in Class I through IX. No subclasses assigned.
SUBCLASSES
A - Air (aviation, aircraft, and airdrop equipment):
Class II - Items of supply and equipment in support of
aviation and aircraft. Class III - Petroleum and chemical
products used in support of aircraft. Class VII - Major
end items of aviation equipment.
B - Troop support materiel:
Consists of such items as
water purification sets; shower, bath, laundry, dry clean-
ing, and bakery equipment; sets, kits, and outfits (in-
cludes tool and equipment sets and shop and equipment
sets for performing unit, DS, GS, and depot-level main-
tenance); sensors and interior intrusion devices; topo-
graphic equipment and related topographic products as
outlined in AR 115-11.
C - Commercial vehicles:
Includes wheeled vehicles
authorized for use in administrative or tactical operations.
E - General supply items:
Includes administrative
expendable supplies such as typewriter ribbons, paper,
cleaning materials, and other supplies normally referred
to as office supplies. Also includes publications
distributed through AG channels.
F -
Clothing and textiles:
Includes individual and
organizational items of clothing and equipment author-
ized in allowance tables and tentage and tarpaulins
authorized in TOE or other media.
G -
Communications-electronics:
Includes signal
items such as radio, telephone, teletype, satellite, avion-
ics, marine communications and navigational equip-
ment; tactical and nontactical ADP equipment;
radar; photographic, audiovisual, and television
equipment; infrared; laser and maser; electronic
sensors; and so forth.
H - Test, measurement, and diagnostic equipment:
Includes items of equipment used to determine the
operating efficiency of or diagnose incipient prob-
lems in systems, components, assemblies, and
subassemblies of materiel.
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